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Frances (Appleton) Longfellow to Anne Longfellow Pierce, 31 December 1857
Manuscript letter
Cambridge Dec 31th 1857.
Dear Annie,
Our new Year wishes come with some remorse on their wings for the neglect of previous messages of love & sympathy [crossed out: for] upon the touching anniversary you silently celebrated some time since.
Our hearts, however, were with you, & we felt all the beauty & holiness of such true faith and unswerving fidelity, and trusted you did not pass that day without promptings of heavenly communion and the [p. 2] consciousness of the beloved presence.
I send you the photograph from Rowse’s picture of my Alice & Edie thinking nothing would be more welcome. I wish it included Annie, but she was rather too young to be attempted.
She promises however to be the genius of the family. She is wonderfully bright in speaking, & in comprehension of all things, and is, withal, the most loving & affectionate of the three. She is the great pet of the house at present, and Rachel thinks far more of her than of the others.
[p. 3] We see Harry daily, and I think he is enjoying his college life, altho’ he grumbles occasionally at his tutor’s exactions. He & Willy have one of the pleasantest rooms here, & seem to have nice companions.
We were glad to have a glimpse of Ellen on her way, & thought she had grown like you.
What do you hear from Mary? We not a word, but young Colburn told me of her fever which I was much pained to know. Has she recovered, and how is her strength? Sam seems interested in his Chapel – naturally. Good bye in haste - Yr affte Fanny.
[p. 4] Best love & wishes to Aunt Lucia. I send her a little lantern for short candle ends when she makes her nightly rounds.
ADDRESED: “FOR ANNIE”
ENDORSED: “1858”
Dear Annie,
Our new Year wishes come with some remorse on their wings for the neglect of previous messages of love & sympathy [crossed out: for] upon the touching anniversary you silently celebrated some time since.
Our hearts, however, were with you, & we felt all the beauty & holiness of such true faith and unswerving fidelity, and trusted you did not pass that day without promptings of heavenly communion and the [p. 2] consciousness of the beloved presence.
I send you the photograph from Rowse’s picture of my Alice & Edie thinking nothing would be more welcome. I wish it included Annie, but she was rather too young to be attempted.
She promises however to be the genius of the family. She is wonderfully bright in speaking, & in comprehension of all things, and is, withal, the most loving & affectionate of the three. She is the great pet of the house at present, and Rachel thinks far more of her than of the others.
[p. 3] We see Harry daily, and I think he is enjoying his college life, altho’ he grumbles occasionally at his tutor’s exactions. He & Willy have one of the pleasantest rooms here, & seem to have nice companions.
We were glad to have a glimpse of Ellen on her way, & thought she had grown like you.
What do you hear from Mary? We not a word, but young Colburn told me of her fever which I was much pained to know. Has she recovered, and how is her strength? Sam seems interested in his Chapel – naturally. Good bye in haste - Yr affte Fanny.
[p. 4] Best love & wishes to Aunt Lucia. I send her a little lantern for short candle ends when she makes her nightly rounds.
ADDRESED: “FOR ANNIE”
ENDORSED: “1858”
Archives Number: 1011/002.001-027#016
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
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NPS Museum Number Catalog : LONG 20257
Title: Finding Aid to the Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow (1817-1861) Papers, 1825-1961 (bulk dated: 1832-1861)
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12/31/1857
Manuscript letter in Frances Appleton Longfellow Papers, Series II. Correspondence, A. Outgoing, 1857. (1011/002.001-027#016)
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